Django (1966)
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92% of critics liked it
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80% of users liked it
(8,102 ratings)
A mysterious man trudges into town dragging a mud-stained coffin behind him. This man is Django (Franco Nero). After he saves Maria (Loredana Nusciak) from certain death, Django finds himself in the middle of a war between Mexican revolutionaries and a band of sadistic racists led by the fanatical… More A mysterious man trudges into town dragging a mud-stained coffin behind him. This man is Django (Franco Nero). After he saves Maria (Loredana Nusciak) from certain death, Django finds himself in the middle of a war between Mexican revolutionaries and a band of sadistic racists led by the fanatical Major Jackson (Eduardo Fajardo). In the face of overwhelming odds, Django has a plan: to exact revenge while pitting enemy against enemy. Featuring the addictively catchy title song performed by Rocky Roberts, "DJANGO" made an international star of Franco Nero, and along with Leone's Man With No Name trilogy, established the Spaghetti Western as an internationally popular genre.
- Directed By
- Sergio Corbucci
- Written By
- Sergio Corbucci, Bruno Corbucci, Piero Vivarelli, Franco Rossetti
- Genres
- Western, Classics
- In Theaters
- Dec 21, 1966 Wide
- On DVD
- Sep 24, 2002
- Studio
- Rialto Pictures
Critic Reviews
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Anton Bitel, Little White Lies
Sergio Corbucci's Django is trapped between two states (literally Texas and Mexico, more metaphorically life and death) even as he brings a new (a)morality and sadism to a gunslinging figure of old America.
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Budd Wilkins, Slant Magazine
Sergio Corbucci's film is notable not only for the artistry of its construction, but also for the underlying anger that fuels its political agenda.
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Kelly Vance, East Bay Express
Flavorful enough to convince us that its multitude of sequels was no fluke.
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Cole Smithey, ColeSmithey.com
[VIDEO ESSAY] With an emphasis on gory brutality, Corbucci introduced a blood-soaked drifter closely modeled after Clint Eastwood's iconic character from Leone's films, but with one clear difference - Django drags a coffin with him everywhere he goes.
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Ed Whitfield, What Culture
When Tarantino's bulging eyes first laid eyes on Django...one can understand his affection for the film's memorable iconography - the dragged coffin, the hand crushed by a rifle butt; stylisation that made a two dime plot more colourful, more memorable.
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Cast
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Franco Nero
as Django
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Loredana Nusciak
as Maria
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Eduardo Fajardo
as Jackson
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Jose Bodalo
as Rodriguez
- Angel Alvarez
- Giovanni Ivan Scratuglia
- Simón Arriaga
- Rafael Vaquero
- Gino Pernice


